“She has never been good at the ‘talking out loud’ part of politics,” is how USA Today Washington Bureau Chief and longtime White House reporter Susan Page assessed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s skillset on Wednesday’s Late Show. And while she was responding to a more general question about the long-serving Speaker’s…
Netflix’s May 2021 looks a whole lot like the last year of Netflix: another avalanche of original content coming to an algorithm near you. The company has more than 40 original television series, movies, and documentaries lined up for the next 31 days, including the second part of Selena: The Series, the return of…
As the United Kingdom turns away from the rest of Europe, its massively short-sighted nationalists need to continue mustering any point of pride that they can dig up. We’re happy today to present them with a new factoid to add to their bragging rights. As it turns out, the London Underground is home to its very own…
Yesterday marked the beginning of the end in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis cop charged—and now convicted—of murdering George Floyd. After just two and a half hours of deliberation, the jury delivered a verdict declaring Chauvin guilty on three counts (second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and…
Returning to the world from a long stretch of pandemic-induced hibernation provides us all with opportunities to reinvent ourselves. We can show our friends and family that we’ve devoted months of lockdown on self-improvement projects like, say, getting as incredibly, creepily jacked as an actor preparing to star in a…
Podcasts are cool, but the fact that they’re recorded inside makes it much more difficult for random strangers to walk by, grab a microphone, and then either tell fascinating stories from their surprisingly interesting lives or drunkenly argue with everyone until they’ve created a uniquely uncomfortable—yet…
With the surprising (because this is America) news that police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted on all three counts (second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter) for his caught-on-camera murder of George Floyd coming down in the late afternoon on Tuesday, late-night shows…
Just what the hell do you think you’re doing, NASA? Pioneering space exploration and inspiring a whole new generation to look towards the heavens with hope and wonder? Yeah, sure, we imagine some people might find images of humanity’s first controlled aerial flight of a drone on Mars to be an objectively beautiful and…
Earlier today, Warner Bros. graciously invited fans of video games, martial arts, and unspeakable gore and bloodshed to a little 4/20 treat: the first seven minutes of Mortal Kombat. If you are worried that the latest live-action adaptation would take the PG-13 route, you’re in luck. Within six minutes, some henchman…
In celebration of April 20th, the day each year when marijuana plants pop out of their holes to look at their shadows and predict the weather, we wanted to highlight the inspirational story of a Canadian woman who contributed to the science of getting super high getting paid to smoke weed for 98 days straight as part…
We’re on Day Two of Mike Lindell’s livestream “launch” of Frank, the MAGA cultist MyPillow CEO’s new “free speech” “social media” “platform.” We feel compelled to use so many quotations because there are many addendums to that statement. “Launch” is being generous, given that technical difficulties made it initially…
At a certain point, we’re going to have to ask ourselves if there’s an influx of strange hidden places popping up around peoples’ homes or if we’re simply noticing them more now than we did before. Following the New Yorker who documented her discovery of a secret room behind her apartment’s mirror on TikTok and the oth…
Anyone who’s ever been delighted by the lilting cadence of Ron Funches’ indefatigably hilarious stand-up knows that the comedian, actor, and current philosophical shark-man isn’t hear to pick a fight. Still, the ever-sunny host of the new, weed-centric cooking show spinoff series Chopped 420 wasn’t backing down on…
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Michaela Coel—star of HBO’s I May Destroy You—is preparing to release her debut novel later this year. Titled Misfits: A Personal Manifesto, the book will reportedly “recount deeply personal anecdotes from [Coel’s] life and work and will detail her journey to reclaiming creativity…
If YouTubers are going to exert such a big influence on the modern media landscape, we can at least hope that they use their powers responsibly. Rather than burn expensive merchandise or sell unholy replicas of their newborn children to viewers, we’d prefer to see our internet video stars making more constructive use…
Look, nobody is saying that Last Week Tonight host and occasional wise-cracking bird sidekick John Oliver looks like a cartoon. Except John Oliver, who noted during his main Sunday story about the labyrinthine and corporate-coddling current bankruptcy laws in America that the placidly condescending clip art bureaucrat…
Amber’s back! After taking a little time off, Ruffin and trusty side-man Tarik Davis caught up on everything that’s been going on in the country since they took a bit of a break. And, sure, there were some restorative laughs to be had at the expense of plummeting GOP star and seriously alleged sex criminal (and Nazi-ch…
After a lifetime spent testing the limits of the British peoples’ unwillingness to wheel a guillotine out in front of Buckingham Palace, Prince Philip died last week. He is survived by his wife/cousin, a (still somehow just alleged) sex criminal son, and a personal legacy of racism, smug imperial self-satisfaction,…
Space exploration is fascinating, but it’s also absolutely goddamn terrifying. For proof of this, we turn to a recent Popular Science video that explains what happens to the human body when somebody dies in space.
Darius, a Continental Giant rabbit who won the Guinness World Record for “longest rabbit living” in 2010, has been kidnapped. We have no idea who the heartless thieves responsible for his abduction are yet, but, by god, we will not rest until the creature is returned home and the criminals have answered for their…
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